Music App Test 6

Which of the following does NOT characterize the piano?

it is capable of only one dynamic level

Video games have:

long used source music

Which of the following is NOT a technical improvement to the nineteenth century piano?

A second keyboard was added

What is the form of Greig's Morning Mood?

A-B-A

What is the form of Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God?

A-B-A

Which of the following American Composers was NOT greatly influenced by the philosophy of the Far East?

Aaron Copland

Which of the following American composers did NOT write musicals?

Aaron Copland

Composers influenced by gamelan music include:

All of the above

What nationality was Stephen Foster?

American

The Libera Me from Faure's Requiem features which vocal soloist?

Baritone

A special theater was built at _______ for the presentation of Wagner's music dramas:

Bayreuth

Which of the following is not composed by John Tavener?

Berlin Mass

Sonata V, from John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is in __________ form

Binary

Which of the following composers is considered one of America's greatest poets as well?

Bob Dylan

Which of the following is not composed by Debussy?

Bolero

Which of the following was NOT a Russian composer?

Borodin

Nationalism is a characteristic of all of the following except:

Chopin's Sonatas

Brahms maintained a lifelong, close relationship with:

Clara Schumann

The Symbolist Poets were strongly influenced by the works of:

Edgar Allan Poe

Electric Counterpoint features the:

Electric guitar

Hector Berlioz was born and spent most of his career in:

France

What nationality was Claude Debussy?

French

Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?

Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter

The singing star Giuseppina Strepponi helped launch the career of:

Giuseppe Verdi

Which innovative composer constructed a scale of forty-three microtones to the octave and built instruments with this tuning?

Harry Partch

Which innovative composer first explored tone clusters at the piano?

Henry Cowell

Which of the following does NOT describe "At the sight of this" from Adam's Doctor Atomic?

It avoids dissonance

Which of the following is NOT true of Berstein's West Side Story?

It has a happy ending

Which of the following does NOT characterize neo-Romanticism?

It maintains Schoenberg's concept of atonality

Which of the following does NOT characterize the Imperial March?

It uses simple march harmonies

John Adam's opera Doctor Atomic is based on the life of:

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:

Java

Which of the following composers invented the prepared piano?

John Cage

Which American composer became known as the "King of Ragtime"?

Joplin

In which genre was Schubert NOT indebted to classical traditions?

Lied

Which mass-media forum was launched in 1981?

MTV

Crumb's Caballito negro is included in a book of:

Madrigals

Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?

Mississippi Delta

Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?

New Orleans

The whole tone scale used by impressionist composers derived from:

Non-Western Music

Italian comic opera is called:

Opera Buffa

Which of the following operas is not by Puccini?

Pagliacci

Which of the following composers is NOT associated with spiritual minimalism?

Paul Lansky

John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is a work for a:

Prepared piano

The leading composer of Italian opera in the Late-Romantic era was:

Puccini

Which of the following is an example of a rock musical?

Rent

Which of the following composers did NOT write operettas?

Richard Wagner

Louis Armstrong was also known as

Satchmo

Schubert and his friends Organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians called:

Schubertiads

Music that is performed on screen and is part of the drama itself is called:

Source music

The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expressionism is called:

Symbolism

Mallarme & Verlaine were:

Symbolist Poets

Which of the following distinguishes the Fisk Jubilee singers arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh's?

The Fisk Jubilee singers perform a cappella

Berstein's West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets and Montagues to a feud between?

The Jets and the Sharks

Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:

The Nutcracker

Which of the following is a musical by the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber?

The Phantom of the Opera

In Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, who are the Valkyries?

The nine daughters of Wotan

Which of the following is NOT true of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?

The program deals entirely with nature

Which of the following describes the accompaniment for Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God?

There is no instrumental accompaniment

John Phillip Sousa conducted the:

U.S. Marine Band

Steve Reich was influenced by polyrhythms of:

West Africa

The Dies Irae is:

a chant from the Mass for the Dead

The Japanese shamisen is:

a plucked stringed instrument

John Phillip Sousa composed:

all of the above

The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which traditions?

all of the above

Which of the following are characteristics of Beijing Opera?

all of the above

Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh?

all of the above

An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:

brass band

Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to:

break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians

The keyboard instrument featured in Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from the Nutcracker, is the:

celesta

Tan Dun's score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon features which Western solo instrument?

cello

Which of the following does NOT characterize the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantasique?

dominance of the string instruments

Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God is sung several times a year, most notably:

during Lent

Which of the following does not describe the career of Patrick S. Gilmore?

earned title as "March King"

How many movements are in Berlioz's symphonie fantasique?

five

Brahms wrote _______ symphonies

four

How many movements does a typical Romantic Symphony contain?

four

Which of the following does NOT characterize Electric Counterpoint?

goal-oriented harmony

Higdon chose the title blue cathedral as a tribute to:

her brother

Brahms composed his German Requiem after the death of:

his mother

Which of the following is NOT a true of New Orleans jazz?

it had no set forms or harmonic progressions

The favorite subjects of the Romantic poets were:

love, longing, nature

Which of the following does NOT characterize Tavener's Hymn to the Mother of God?

major and minor harmonic progressions

A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new significantly varied material when the test requires it is called:

modified strophic

Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?

more than 600

Wagner called his operas:

music dramas

Electronic music that relies on natural sounds is called:

musique concrete

In this post-minimalist style, John Adams combines minimalism with:

neo-Romanticism

The concept of a program overture had its origin in the:

opera overture

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:

piano

What is Vernacular music?

popular songs sung in a country's native language

The ensemble that follows "La Donna e mobile" in Act III of Rigoletto is a:

quartet

Louis Armstrong's instrumental-like approach to singing is called

scat-singing

Which movement of a Romantic Symphony is most likely to be strongly rhythmic and dancelike?

scherzo

The mood at the end of Libera Me from Faure's Requiem is:

serene

Wager's total artwork, in which all the arts-music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle-are fused together is called:

the Gesamtkunstwerk

In Berlioz's symphonie Fantasique, what is the idee fixe?

the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement

The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of:

the song

Another name for the symphonic poem is:

tone poem

Billie Holiday's song Billie's Blues is in ______ form

twelve-bar blues